Prototyping a new health and work service
...work passport, which helps the user to reduce the amount of times they must tell their story to each service provider, employer signposting of the service which will help support...
Policy Lab
Policy Lab mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.
The future of ageing
The Foresight Future of an Ageing Population project is part of a Government Office for Science initiative to understand the opportunities and challenges of an ageing population. The project has...
Exploring new ways of turning evidence into ideas
...the opposite? What would you do in 2040? Oh... hang on. These are hypothetical change cards that Policy Lab usually uses in quickfire brainstorming rounds to generate loads of -...
From deductive to abductive, Policy Lab investigates new ways of thinking about policy
Do you have an ‘I really don’t know’ policy challenge? Policy Lab can help.
Cards toolkit to help generate ideas and develop your policy project in an agile way
...- or prototypes - are in the policy world, and have been trying out sketches, paper prototypes and testing things out in the field. People are experimenting and interest is...
What do civil servants need to learn about user-centred design?
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Ulele Andrews, Posted on:
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Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques, Thought Pieces
User-centred design is increasingly on the agenda of government and Civil Service Learning is gearing up to deliver learning on user-centred design next year. Read about how they're using the Policy Lab to help design the course.
Ethnography in policymaking: Barriers and opportunities
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Dr Lucy Kimbell, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques
...civil service. “We hope to get insights we wouldn’t get elsewhere and use them to create interventions we wouldn’t otherwise have thought of.” Barriers and challenges The culture within which...
Design in policy making
...that a key measure of success was to reduce the time patients spent waiting.’* How radical the redesign ambition is determined in the policy, in the brief, designed into the...
Open Policy 2015: Prototyping in government workshop
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Dr Lucy Kimbell, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques
...work in the basement conference room where the workshop took place, and got stuck in. They helped themselves to craft materials arranged on a table as well as flipchart paper,...
Policy making through possible futures
...exist in a future world, and not hoaxing people into thinking they exist now. For the GO-Science workshop in Swansea last week, the research and design co-operative - Strange Telemetry...